I was looking for te English version of her work, especially public art work.
here i copy teh article at internet:
still not clearl knowing the border line of art and public work, but i like what she did.
Along with her drawings..
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photos of montain>
Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Spaces
October 16 - January 4, 2004
(MILWAUKEE, WI) The Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University will present Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Spaces October 16, 2003 ? January 4, 2004. A retrospective of over 60 of her projects represented by 110 works, opens at the Haggerty Museum on Thursday, October 16. The artist will give the opening lecture at 6 p.m. at the Helfaer Theatre, followed by a reception at 7 p.m. in the Museum. The exhibition documents her work in the form of drawings, models and photographs from 1968 to the present.
Foremost among the works represented in the exhibition are "Wheatfield - a Confrontation" (1982) and "Tree Mountain ? A Living Time Capsule" (1992-1996). In May 1992, a two-acre wheatfield was planted on a Battery Park landfill in Lower Manhattan worth $4.5 billion two blocks from Wall Street and the World Trade Center. The crop was harvested four months later yielding over 1,000 pounds of golden wheat. "Tree Mountain" is a collaborative project of a huge manmade mountain of 11,000 trees planted by 11,000 people in gravel fields in Ylöjärvi, Finland. The forest was dedicated in June 1996 by the president of Finland, and will be maintained for 400 years to hold back land erosion, provide a home for wildlife, and create interaction between individuals.
"Artists of recent times such as Denes have frequently turned to environmental issues as a focus for making art," said museum director Dr. Curtis L. Carter. "Denesí work is of special interest as it links the built environment with nature themes."
Denes is currently designing a 25-year master plan for the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie (2000) in the Netherlands. Her goal is to unite a 100 kilometer-long string of forts dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries. She is incorporating water and flood management, urban planning, historical preservation, landscaping, and tourism into the plan.
Denes' previous projects included in the exhibition are "Poetry Walk: Reflections," (2000), 20 granites carved with writings from poets and philosophers embedded in the lawn at the University of Virginia; "A Forest for Australia," (1998), the planting of 6000 trees of endangered species in five spirals; and "Uprooted and Deified-The Golden Tree," (2001), a fully grown tree uprooted, painted gold and installed floating in mid-air in Göteborgs, Sweden.
Denes was born in Budapest, Hungary and now lives in New York City. She lived in Stockholm as a child before moving the United States in 1954. Denes attended the New School for Social Research, New York (1959-1963), the City College of New York (1961-62) and Columbia University as a Robinson Scholar, 1964-66. She has been a professor at the School of Visual Arts, New York; the San Francisco Art Institute; the Environmental Art Workshop, Hartford Art School, Connecticut; and Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria. Denes' work has been the focus of over 50 solo and over 250 group exhibitions. She has presented over 150 lectures internationally and in the United States.
The exhibition was organized by the Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Fund, Marquette University College of Arts and Sciences, Milwaukee Arts Board and the Wisconsin Arts Board.
